Gianna Jessen

I watched this video last night before I went to bed, and it filled my heart with joy this morning to see it circulating around Facebook. It is really a powerful 16 minutes. I encourage you to watch the whole thing, this women is such a strong voice in a divided world.

Prayer

I have decided that when it comes blogging, I really need to improve. So this is my early New Years resolution: To have at least 5 blog posts/month. We will see how this goes, October will be the trial run.

-You see, I am supposed to be going away in February on Internship for school, and I know that if I do not learn to blog regularly, all of you will surely suffer from the lack of updates on my life...right??

As this whole internship thing draws nearer, I had been finding myself more and more stressed out over the fact that I still do not have a set in stone, completely finalized internship yet. But within a week, that stress had gone from 10 (high) to 3. God sure does move in mysterious ways, for which I can only reply "Thank you."

Today in class we had an interesting discussion on the things that keep us from prayer. Up until today I had really been on the fence about whether or not I enjoyed this particular class, and today made up my mind. You see my professor was sick today, so she was trying to use her voice as little as possible, and what better way to do that then to make your students do the talking? I know it's not everyone's problem, but my prayer and devotion time has always been something that I have struggled with. There are so many things in this world that draw down on our lives, leaving us tired, busy or distracted to the point where filling ourselves in a spiritual way becomes our last priority. To the point where is almost seems like a chore. My conclusion from the class is one that I've known in my mind for a long time, but have not accepted in my heart. It is not that I have to make the time to spend with God, it's that I get to spend time with God.